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Young-Joo Byun - The Murmuring III : My Own Breathing (1999)

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:11:02 +0100

In My Own Breathing (1999), we are introduced to a new individual who was taken forcibly into service at 14 years old. She is interviewed by another former comfort woman, who was shown in earlier films and who underwent many of the same experiences.

Young-Joo Byun - The Murmuring II : Habitual Sadness (1997)

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:06:33 +0100

Habitual Sadness (1997) was initiated at the request of the women, who asked that BYEON film the last days of a group member who had been diagnosed with cancer. In this film we see the women gaining self-confidence, eventually moving behind the camera themselves to utilize the medium of film as a means of both protest and healing.

David Gregory - Texas Chain Saw Massacre: The Shocking Truth (2000)

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:04:23 +0100

The film which you are about to see is an account of the making of a cult classic. A group of young filmmakers, tehnicians and actors produces a film in Austin, in 1973, which would depict the mad and macabre as it had never been seen before in a motion picture. For them the low budget production in the sweltering heat of the Texas Summer would prove a difficult experience and the worldwide success of the picture would be soured by dishonesty and corruption. But the events of that summer shoot would change the face of the horror film and lead to the production of one of the most bizarre films in the annals of American Cinema History - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Young-Joo Byun - Najeun moksori (1995) The Murmuring I

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:02:28 +0100

Portrays the grandmothers lives today, leading their weekly protests in front of the Japanese embassy and fighting to overcome the sense of shame that has been planted within them and reinforced by an uncaring public. Much of the film takes place in the House of Sharing (Nanum), a group home in Seoul where several of the former Comfort women reside.

Irving Reis - Enchantment (1948)

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:01:15 +0100

An unashamedly romantic story about a stately London house and the people who live - or have lived - in it.

George A. Romero - Survival of the Dead (2009)

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:41:17 +0100

Entirely filmed in Canada instead of the Pennsylvania locations used in the earlier episodes of the franchise, "Survival" sets the action mainly on a fictional Plum Island in Delaware. It's been six days since the dead began to walk, and two local families, the O'Flynns and the Muldoons, are at loggerheads about how to deal with the zombie incursion.

Larry Jordan - Postcard from San Miguel (1996)

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:37:23 +0100

The mystery and the beauty of Mexico's high desert colonial town, its churches, its abandoned silver mine, its statues and colored streets. Lines from Garcia Lorca.

Felipe Cazals - Las poquianchis (De los pormenores y otros sucedidos del dominio p�blico que acontecieron a las hermanas de triste memoria a quienes la maledicencia as� las bautiz�) (1976)

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:01:24 +0100

The film is based in a true-life story; involving a ring of child and women prostitution in which some middle-rank politicians and police bosses were involved from the early 50's to the early 70's in �el baj�o�region of M�xico.

Naum Kramarenco - Tres miradas a la calle (1957)

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:22:10 +0100

This was the first feature length film by Naum Kramarenco. In three vignettes, each developing its own appropriate genre style, it subtly interrogates social conditions in Chile during the 1950s. Kramarenco has recently been receiving more attention in Chile. He began making his unusual narrative films before the advent of the New Chilean Cinema associated with Soto, Ruiz, Littin, Francia, etc. In standard histories of Chilean cinema, he is rarely mentioned much less discussed in the 'company' of the films of the late 1960s in spite of the fact that several of these filmmakers (and others associated with the Department of Experimental Cinema at the University of Chile including Pedro Chaskel, who is credited as this film's assistant director) 'cut their teeth' working on his films.

Felipe Cazals - El apando (1976) aka The Heist

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:14:45 +0100

Felipe Cazals adapted the novel of Jose Revueltas that he Wrote in Lecumberri prison and displayed the corruption model of the Mexican system in jail, with his usual style of show cruelty in its greatest expression Felipe Cazals was supported this time with an extraordinary assembly of actors which intensity make convincing all he tried to show in the film, Manuel Ojeda,which head appear for the only hole in the Apando where they are prisoners,(this scene remind me Steve McQueen in Papillon) Salvador Sanchez and Jose Carlos Ruiz as the prisoners who traffic drug in the jail get in the film one of the best acting I ever seen in Mexican films until those years, Maria Rojo and Delia Casanova transmitted with naturally and freshmen the simplicity of the low-media Mexican class women, both suffer the denigrates methods of auscultation before enter at jail as visitors.

Alejandro Landes - Cocalero (2007)

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:12:05 +0100

A documentary centered on the union formed by Bolivian farmers in response to their government's (which was urged by the U.S.) effort eradicate coca crops, and the man who would come to represent them, Evo Morales.

Jean Ch�teauvert - La coupure (2006) aka Torn Apart

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:08:51 +0100

Chris Atkins - Taking Liberties (2007)

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:45:08 +0100

Taking Liberties is a shocking but hilarious polemic documentary that charts the destruction of the British people's basic liberties under 10 years of New Labour. Released to coincide with Tony Blair's departure, the film and the book follow the stories of normal people who's lives have been turned upside down by injustice - from being arrested for holding a placard outside parliament to being tortured in Guantanamo Bay.

Juan Carlos Pineiro-Escoriaza - Second Skin (2008)

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:25:42 +0100

Second Skin takes an intimate, fascinating look at computer gamers whose lives have been transformed by the emerging, hugely popular genre of computer games like World of Warcraft, Second Life, and Everquest, which allow millions of users from around the world to simultaneously interact in virtual spaces. We meet couples who have fallen in love without meeting, disabled players whose lives have been given new purpose, those struggling with addiction, Chinese gold-farming sweatshop workers, wealthy online entrepreneurs and legendary guild leaders - all living in a world that doesn't quite exist.

Alanis Obomsawin - Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance (1993)

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:20:46 +0100

On a hot July day in 1990, an historic confrontation propelled Native issues in Kanehsatake and the village of Oka, Qu�bec, into the international spotlight and into the Canadian conscience. Director Alanis Obomsawin endured 78 nerve-wracking days and nights filming the armed stand-off between the Mohawks, the Qu�bec police and the Canadian army. A powerful feature-documentary emerges that takes you right into the action of an age-old aboriginal struggle. The result is a portrait of the people behind the barricades, providing insight into the Mohawks' unyelding determination to protect their land.